“I have always loved the Holy Tongue”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (Carl Newell Jackson Lectures) by Grafton, Anthony; Weinberg, Joanna

Belknap Press - Harvard University, 2011. Hardcover with dust jacket. Infrequent penciling throughout. Dust jacket is edge worn.

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. (Isaac Casaubon, Old Testament Scholars, Christian Herbalists, Biography)

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) / London, 2011. XI,380p. Quarter cloth bound with pictorial dust wrps. ?Famous for his expertise in classical philology and exposure of the Hermetic texts as forgeries, Isaac Casaubon comes alive in unexpected ways in this erudite and beautifully produced book. Through an examination of Casaubon?s study of Hebrew, Jews, and Judaism, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg reveal entirely new aspects of Casaubon?s scholarly and personal life, while placing him firmly in the context of the Reformation. As the authors point out, Casaubon?s Judaic studies have received no scholarly attention whatsoever, and this despite the fact that he read and extensively annotated many works by Jews (in Hebrew, Aramic, Greek and several in Yiddish) as well as books written by Christian Hebraists on Judaism and Yewish customs and institutions. As the authors say, ?To know Casaubon the Judaist is, as we will argue, to know Casaubon the classicist in a new way?… Read More

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Belknap Pr, 2011. Hardcover. New. 392 pages. 10.00x7.10x1.10 inches.